Write text into zipfile in python

Question

I have a function which creates a zip archive with a textfile in it. Is it possible to do this without creating a temporary file?

import zipfile
import os

PROJ_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))


def create_zip(name, text):
    with open(os.path.join(PROJ_DIR, "_tmp_file_"), "w+") as f: 
        f.write(text)

    zf = zipfile.ZipFile(os.path.join(PROJ_DIR, "%s.zip" % name), "w",
                         zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
    zf.write(os.path.join(PROJ_DIR, "_tmp_file_"), "/file.txt")
    zf.close()

You can try to use [`StringIO`](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stringio.html) instead of temporary file. — Yaroslav Admin, Oct 09 '15 at 08:58

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '15 at 09:00

10

You can use writestr instead of write, an example

zf.writestr('/file.txt', text)

The documentation.

answered Oct 09 '15 at 09:00

Christian Witts

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